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Nintendo Downloads: DSi Animal Crossing Gadgets, Penguins & Friends and Tower Toppler on Wii

By Alice O'Connor, May 04, 2009 5:57am PDT

Monday morning can only mean a new batch of downloads for the North American DSi and Wii, including DSi clocks and calculators decked out in full...

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"Why, dear dantastic, the slimmer profile, larger screens, nice finish, cameras, SD card slot, ..."

- Alice O'Connor see all 3 comments

Nintendo Downloads: Paper Planes and Poker DSi, Nobunaga's Ambition and Jumping for Wii

By Chris Faylor, Apr 27, 2009 10:57am PDT

In continuation of its weekly tradition, Nintendo today updated the online DSi and Wii Shops with more downloadable games for each platform. This...

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"I must've spent a million hours on Nobunaga's Ambition for NES so I got all excited until I saw ..."

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Nintendo Downloads Bring Dr. Mario Express to DSi, Final Fantasy Tower Defense Force for Wii

By Chris Faylor, Apr 20, 2009 12:08pm PDT

Celebrating the start of the new week, Nintendo has updated North America's online DSi and Wii Shops with new downloads, including the pill-popping...

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"They should have merged it with Dr.Mario RX Online for the Wii, so you can play online between ..."

- Sir_Shaggy see all 10 comments

Nintendo Downloads: Broken Picture Telephone DSi, Pirate Stabbing Pitfalls on Wii

By Alice O'Connor, Apr 13, 2009 7:50am PDT

This Monday's Wii Shop Channel sees a Pop-Up Pirate and some adventurous Mayan Pitfalls, but more excitingly the Nintendo DSiWare Shop receives its...

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"Doesn't that make it pointless. I'd say online would be the only reason to buy that game...."

- jigstah see all 7 comments

Wii Shop Gets Super Punch-Out!!, First Ever 'First-Person-Groomer'

By Chris Faylor, Mar 30, 2009 7:34am PDT

Today's Wii Shop Channel update brings a double-dose of surprise. First, we've got the long awaited re-release of Nintendo's SNES classic Super...

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"This was such a bad idea. Who's going to buy the new one when the original was so good? I ..."

- cocacrazy88 see all 3 comments

Wii Virtual Console Gets Arcade Games

By Chris Faylor and Nick Breckon, Mar 25, 2009 10:16am PDT

The Wii's online Shop Channel will today be expanded to include classic arcade games, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata just announced at the Game...

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"how about they hurry their ass up and release the good neo geo games?"

- jayares see all 14 comments

Final Fantasy 4 Sequel 'After Years' Coming to Wii, Original FF Games Hitting Virtual Console

By Chris Faylor and Nick Breckon, Mar 25, 2009 10:02am PDT

The Wii will soon see a total of four more Final Fantasy releases from Square Enix, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata just revealed in his Game Developers...

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"Final Fantasy IV: The After Years was released on mobile phones in Japan. Glad to see we are ..."

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Wii Gets SD Card Storage Solution

By Chris Faylor and Nick Breckon, Mar 25, 2009 9:49am PDT

At long last addressing cries that the Wii's internal 512MB of storage isn't enough to store all the downloadable Virtual Console and WiiWare games...

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"This is awesome because IMO Wii Virtual Console and WiiWare are the only reason I play my Wii ..."

- flasher 907 see all 45 comments

Wii Shop Channel Update Brings SAMEGAME, Bomberman and Twin Bee

By Chris Faylor, Mar 23, 2009 2:25pm PDT

As it's Monday, Nintendo has updated the online Wii Shop to include a selection of new games, including the ingeniously named puzzler Pop'Em...

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"How about some R.C. Pro-am already? I've been wanting it since launch."

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Wii Shop Gets Funky Beats, Old School Sports

By Chris Faylor, Mar 16, 2009 9:15am PDT

This week, the Wii Shop Channel delivers a funky Pong-like rhythm game and an old-school sports games from waaaaaaaaaaay back when. As in, 24 years...

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"The Wii has taken a great leap 30 years backwards so we can once again play Atari Combat and ..."

- Jeepy McJeeperton see all 8 comments

Wii Shop Channel Adds Gradius ReBirth, Alex Kidd

By Nick Breckon, Mar 09, 2009 11:13am PDT

Konami's sidescrolling shooter Gradius ReBirth headlines this week's Wii Shop Channel update. The WiiWare title, which offers a remix of five...

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"well, yeah, but the complaint among gradius fans seems to be that the series has already had ..."

- DeBurgo see all 6 comments

Wii Shop Channel Gets Ogre Battle, Friends & Family

By Chris Faylor, Mar 02, 2009 7:46am PST

The arrival of Monday brings with it a fresh set of downloadable offerings from the Wii Shop Channel. This week, we've got one retro re-release and...

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"Yeah, I heard the FBI busted a guy next door recently for having ZSNES and some ROMs on his comp ..."

- Topsiderover see all 13 comments

Wii Shop Channel Adds Commodore 64 Games

By Chris Faylor, Feb 23, 2009 10:59am PST

Following last week's tease that the Wii Virtual Console would soon add Commodore 64 games, this week sees the addition of three C64 titles and a...

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"so many great games on the C64 , the one I put the most time into was prob "Below the Root" - ..."

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Nintendo Teases Wii Shop Channel 'Surprise,' Releases Two Space Shoot 'Em Ups

By Chris Faylor, Feb 16, 2009 10:21am PST

Alongside word of the two new Wii Shop Channel games, Nintendo interrupted its usual Monday announcement to tease that "a fun surprise" is coming...

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"C64 games on Wii VC! Here'd be some of my favorites: Raid over Moscow Raid on Bungeling ..."

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Wii Shop Channel Gets LIT, MERCS

By Chris Faylor, Feb 09, 2009 11:05am PST

Today's Wii Shop Channel update? Totally afraid of the dark. In fact, if you stumble into the dark during one of LIT's puzzles, well, let's just...

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"Original mode guys were Rifle (MG), Burner (flamethrower), Launcher (nades/rockets), Laser and ..."

- sweetcc see all 2 comments